The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-17
a total loss together with AGA bales of
cotton. The loss OF life ia very large.

a CoGal loss together with aga bales o
cotton. The loss OF life is very large.
The action OF the senate committee OF
privileges and elections in reporting bacl
the credentials OF David Turpie, is said t.
have no significance, but was taken in &C
cordance with a continuous line OF pre-
cedents. 1t is understood that when Mr.
Turpie, at the next session, presents him
sell to be sworn in a protest will be enter
ed and that the contest will then begin
Notice has been received from Indiana
mat additional papers in the case are t.
he submitted.
The suit Of the Supreme lodge o
the Knights OF Honor, under tn
Missouri charter, against the bone
Of Robert j.. Breckenridge of KY. 70,
$4,000, claimed as a deficit in his &C
counts as treasurer OF the order, went tt
trial in the United States circuit court be
fore Judge jackson at Louisville. The de
tense admitted that the books were wrong
not attempting to explain their bad con
dition, but offered to compromise by pay
,nent OF $50, 600. 1t was finally agreed tc
allow a judgment to be entered for the
plaintiff in $25, 1000.
At Ann Arbor, Mich, fire Quilted thu
pharmacy department of the Michigan uni
versity and causing q loss Of $4,000, fully
insured. A large amount OF valuable ap
paratus and chemicals was destroyed.
The poisoning of another woman, max.
ing five in all, is alleged against Lawrence
Krug, now in jail in Chicago, suspected o.
numbering three wives and a step.daugh'
ter. The supposed fifth victim was Gunda
S%hoepwar, a pretty neteen.year-ol old
daughter OF the sister of Krus's first wife.
Nominations sent to the senate: To be
assistant adjutant general, with the rank
OF colonel, Lieut.. Col. William D. Whipple,
assistant adjutant general; Lieut.. Col.
Chauncey McKeever to be assistant ad'
jutant general, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel; Maj. Oliver D. Greene, assistant
adjutant general; Maj. Samuel Brock, as.
sistant adiutant general; Maj. Henry C.
Wood, assistant adjutant general; Maj.
James P. Martin, assistant adjutant gen.
eral.
OF the 800 bodies OF earthquake victims
buried at Diana-Marino, only $50 bodies
were identified.
Senator Hugh Nelson has been appointed
governor of British Columbia to succeed
Gov. Cornwall, whose term has expired.
Railroad men say that the recent storm
was unprecedented in the history of rail.
>'ding in Canada.
The aggregate increase to the naval ap.
preparation bill by the senate committee
"a pPPAc AOOAoL1O 10 "
and $22, OOO, 600, but inasmuch az the ex.
penditures cover five years, it is estimated
tina the additional appropriation for the
next fiscal year will not exceed Sc, 600, 900,
which will raise the aggregate expenditure
for the year between $1,000, 900 and $780,
600. 600.
The British ship T. N. Hart sailed from
New York May 16 for shanghai since which
time nothing had bee n heard of her, and it
is feared that she is lost with all on board.
She was commanded by Capt. Mccarthy
and had a crew OF twenty men.
The president has committed the death
sentence in the case Af John Washington
and Simmons Wolf, two Seminole Indians,
to imprisonment for life. These Indians
were convicted OF rape on q white woman
in the Indian Territory, and were sentenced
to be hanged. The presidents action was
based on q doubt az to the guilt of the
men.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has rented a
house in London.
The railway people at Windsor, opposite
Detroit, are complaining very much OF
trouble and annoyance given them by the
American custom officers doing duty on
the railway ferry boats since the passage
OF the re~taliatory bill. They say that
great inconvenience will be felt when navi-
CATION opens if the same course be pursued
and non-intercourse pretty we'll establish
ed.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt writes to
the Times to show that the troubles in Ire
land arise from attempts OF the govern
ment to enforce the payment OF rents
which their own land commission has de.
clared the people are unable to pay. He
quotes from speeches of Sir Michael Hicks
Beach and other conservatives made last
ytar, in which it was admitted that Mr..
Parnell was able to prove the premises of
b. tenants relief bill, the government
would be bound to attempt to supply q
remedy. The land commission, says the
writer, proved Mr.. Parnell to be in the
right, yet, the government, instead OF
bringing q bill to deal with judicial rents,
proposes fresh coercial measures.
The New York jury to whom was given
the question at issue in the action at is.
sue brought on by Minnie Clark, who calls
cules Kittson OF Minnesota the young SON
of the Commodore, for a legal separation
on the ground of his abandonment, decid-
ed that, although there had been a ceremony
of marriage performed between the parties,
yet at the time the defendant was incapa-
BILE of entering into any such contrac t, be-
cause of his being intoxicated. The jury
also found that the plaintiff and de.
fendant had not cohabited as husband and
wife, and that she is a person of question
able character, and that she has been gull,
ty OF adultery with Charles Spillane. The
case will now 60 to the special term Of the
supreme court for the settlement OF the leg
al questions involved, and q motion will
probably be heard then to set the verdict
aside.
Senator Jones OF Florida, who is still in
Detroit, says the action of the governor in
appointing a successor to him to hold OF.
fee until the legislature meets is clearly lie.
gal. He says he is not a candidate for re.
election, but would accept the honor il
thrust upon him.
The vetoed bill for a building at Sioux
City, Iowa, was passed by the senate
over the veto-3S to 16.
The Rocky Mountain section OF the
Canadian Pacific has suffered from the re.
cent heavy rains, which nave carried away
several small bridges. Through traffic will
be delayed for some days in consequence.
The new German reichstag was opened
at Berlin on the Sd. The emperor's speech
was read from the throne. In it he says:
He is gratifed at the benevolent DISPOSE
ton the pope has shown toward the EN-.
pire. The foreign policy of the empire is
continually directed to the maintenance
OF peace with all the powers, and
especially with Germany's neigh